ClaimsSteven Pinker

“the problem of getting humans, for example, to act at your bidding, you know, short of coercion, is a really tough, maybe unsolvable problem.”

Steven Pinker 7 October 2026 Steven Pinker on AI Doom and Consciousness (Conspicuous Cognition) archived copy

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the problem of getting humans, for example, to act at your bidding, you know, short of coercion, is a really tough, maybe unsolvable…

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Steven Pinker, “the problem of getting humans, for example, to act at your bidding, you know, short of coercion, is a really tough, maybe unsolvable…” (said 7 October 2026). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_4320cbb0b8ae, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_4320cbb0b8ae

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